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Method of determining correction parameters for use in light-amount adjustment in a color copying operation
Assignee: Agfa Gevaert AG
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Filing: 1980-06-19
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Granted: 1982-08-17
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Expires: 2000-06-19
Abstract
Abstract A method of determining correction parameters for adjusting the amounts of light to which originals are to be exposed in a color copying operation in dependence on the composition deviations of the respective original from a calibrating original involves establishing, for each of a multitude of regions of the respective original, two characteristic values respectively representative of a relationship between the blue and green color values, on the one hand, and the red and green color values, on the other hand, averaging those of the established characteristic values the relationships of which are within a distribution range normally encountered in an image of an object on the original, forming an average from the average values, and ascertaining the magnitude and direction of the correction parameters from the difference between the average obtained from the particular original and a like average obtained from the calibrating original. The regions into which the original is subdivided are successively scanned and the scanned area of each region is only a small fraction of the total area of the respective region. The method may be performed on a single original or on a series of originals.
Inventors
- 👤 Siegfried Thurm
- 👤 Konrad Bunge
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 13:42
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03B; G03B27/00; G03B27/72; G03B27/73; G03B27/735
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
179 words
A method of determining a correction parameter for the copying of a colored original, comprising the steps of sensing a characteristic of each of the three primary colors in a plurality of regions of said colored original; establishing a pair of values for each of said regions from the sensed characteristics of said primary colors in the respective regions; classifying said pairs of values into distribution zones which respectively correspond to the spread of said values for an image on said colored original; averaging the pairs of values within the respective distribution zones to obtain an average value for each of said distribution zones, whereby the frequency with which each of said primary colors appears on said colored original is eliminated as a factor in the determination of said correction parameter and all of the sensed color compositions have substantially the same weight in said determination; forming an overall average from said average values; and ascertaining the magnitude and sense of said correction parameter from the difference between said overall average and a like average for a calibrating original.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
179 words
A method of determining a correction parameter for the copying of a colored original, comprising the steps of sensing a characteristic of each of the three primary colors in a plurality of regions of said colored original; establishing a pair of values for each of said regions from the sensed characteristics of said primary colors in the respective regions; classifying said pairs of values into distribution zones which respectively correspond to the spread of said values for an image on said colored original; averaging the pairs of values within the respective distribution zones to obtain an average value for each of said distribution zones, whereby the frequency with which each of said primary colors appears on said colored original is eliminated as a factor in the determination of said correction parameter and all of the sensed color compositions have substantially the same weight in said determination; forming an overall average from said average values; and ascertaining the magnitude and sense of said correction parameter from the difference between said overall average and a like average for a calibrating original.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the size of each of said regions is at least equal to that of the smallest significant image on said colored original.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said colored original is subdivided into approximately 100 of said regions.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said sensing step includes spot-scanning only 10% of each of said regions.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said sensing step includes spot-scanning only a substantially circular and substantially centrally located part of each of said regions.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said ascertaining step includes multiplying said difference by a function which monotonously increases with the number of said average values.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said average-forming step is performed for several frames of said colored original.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said sensing step includes measuring the extinction coefficients in said regions.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
46 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein one of each of said pairs of values is established from a relationship between two of said primary colors and the other from a relationship between the third primary color and one of the two other primary colors.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method as defined in claim 9, wherein one of each of said pairs of values is established from a relationship between red and green and the other from a relationship between blue and green.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein each of said values is established by subtraction.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method as defined in claim 1, wherein said correction parameter is indicative of the exposure adjustment required to copy said colored original.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
29 words
The method as defined in claim 12, wherein said correction parameter is indicative of the exposure adjustment in each of said primary colors required to copy said colored original.
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